Proper Name Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. — Elias Canetti
• Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost… — Steven Rattner
• This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. — Confucius
• Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Who Wrote These Proper Name Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Proper Name Quotes as follows:

• 1 Proper Name Quote by Elias Canetti
• 1 Proper Name Quote by Steven Rattner
• 1 Proper Name Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Proper Name Quote by Confucius
• 1 Proper Name Quote by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• 1 Proper Name Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray